A teaching and research platform for 'Popular cinema and cultural studies' - a Year 2 module in Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College. Includes: module reading links, articles, film and cultural theory, fan sites, reviews, etc.

 
Week 13 - Into the archive...

As we wind up the module, we take a closer look at what happesn when popular cinema comes into contact with changing conditions and modes of viewing. We'll be using Derrida's notion of 'archive fever' to address the relation of popular film and the database/archive through various new media, such as DVD and the web... even 'blogs like this one (or better ones preferably).

Have a look at any promotional web sites for recent films, but especially have a click/wander through the official site for Memento, cunningly called www.otnemem.com.

Watch the film, too, obviously!

Then read Christopher Bodnar's piece on Memento and the database: it's quite short, but the footnotes are very long... - 'The Database, Logic, and Suffering: _Memento_ and Random-Access Information Aesthetics'



posted by Stampman at 10:56 AM

 
Week 10 - Postmodernism and/as realism

For this week's session on Twelve Monkeys, you might want to clear up your nagging doubts about the time-twisting narrative with M. J. Young's rather detailed excursus on the subject: go to Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies - 12 Monkeys

In addition, here's the link for the Terry Gilliam interview with Henri Behar quoted in my lecture.

Alternatively, if you wanted to find out more about the work of Chris Marker - whose La Jetee was the inspiration for the original script of Twelve Monkeys, you have look at silverthread presents - Chris Marker
posted by Stampman at 5:11 PM